Mustafa Suleiman
Appearances
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1100: James Patterson | Building the Architecture of Addictive Fiction
We are a technological species. From the beginning of time, we have been manipulating the environment to reduce our suffering, and that is the purpose of a tool. But a tool has always been inanimate.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1100: James Patterson | Building the Architecture of Addictive Fiction
Whereas now, I think the profound shift that we're going through is that we're sort of giving rise to these new phenomena that I hesitate to call a tool because it has these amazing properties to be able to create and produce and invent way beyond and disconnected to what we've actually directed it to do.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1100: James Patterson | Building the Architecture of Addictive Fiction
But now we've really crossed this moment, this threshold, where now computers can increasingly talk our language. And that is just mind-blowing. People are still not fully absorbing how completely nuts that is. We want AI to be able to solve our big problems in the world. You know, we want it to help us tackle climate change and improve drugs and improve healthcare and give us self-driving cars.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1100: James Patterson | Building the Architecture of Addictive Fiction
And we want to solve these massive problems that we have in the world of trying to feed 8 billion people and growing and so on, right? So that's going to change what it means to be human. It's going to change society in a very fundamental way. It will change work and so on. It's been such a privilege to be creating and making and building at a time like this.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
1100: James Patterson | Building the Architecture of Addictive Fiction
Almost 15 years in the field now, thinking about the consequences of AI and trying to build it so that it delivers on the upsides. And it's just a surreal time to be alive.